Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right thing in July 1993 when he restricted the ability of federal investigators to review documents in Vince Foster's office in the days after Foster's apparent suicide. "I'm proud of my conduct," Nussbaum declared at one point. To which Alabama's Richard Shelby, a former Democrat, replied with a convert's contempt for his old faith: "You're probably the only person in America who's proud of your conduct...
...California Democrat Barbara Boxer has renewed her crusade to force those hearings. "The apparent abuse of public trust that seems to have taken place against many women is outrageous enough," she said last week. "The fact that it may include a child who was 15 when she started interning for Senator Packwood adds a whole new dimension to this matter." Boxer claims that at least two Senators have told her they are reconsidering their votes against her proposal for hearings. All Boxer needs is one more vote. She picked up an unlikely ally in conservative G.O.P. presidential contender Pat Buchanan...
...five largest cigarette manufacturers filed a lawsuit claiming that the FDA has no jurisdiction over cigarettes and that the advertising restrictions violate their First Amendment rights. But Clinton has tried to entice the tobacco companies into backing a law that would directly impose the restrictions he seeks. California Democrat Henry Waxman, the leading antismoking figure in the House, predicts that the new Republican majority might pass these reforms rather than let their nemesis, the FDA, regulate the industry...
...seed money that Hughes endorses actually cultivates bad seeds. This is vividly illustrated in a new book by Alice G. Marquis of the University of California at San Diego, Art Lessons: Learning from the Rise and Fall of Public Arts Funding. Marquis, a history scholar and self-identified Democrat, notes, "The [National Endowment for the Arts'] shotgun policy of passing out masses of small grants has conjured up an unsustainable array of needy groups and individuals ... Well meaning in its objective, [it] has also produced unexpected consequences. Art is not a product like soybeans, but rather the outcome of imaginative...
...Robert Torricelli, a feisty, partisan Democrat, is the strongest Democratic contender likely to run for Bradley's seat. Among the elephants, it's Rep. Dick Zimmer, a three-term fiscal conservative/pro-choicer...